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Two-Color Knitted Hat

I used this book as a tutorial on how to make a hat with a pattern made from two-colors of yarn.

I will say that I also needed to look up images, instructions, and videos online to fully understand the technique.

Once you get it, it’s pretty cool. You hold one color in one hand and the second color in the other.

As per the instructions in the book not being clear, it was partly because there would be a couple paragraphs of explanations about a skill, followed by one sentence telling you to knit 2 inches or decrease every other row, etc.

When decreasing at the top of the hat (decrease on one row, knit all the next row), after several more paragraphs, on the next page, it told you to start decreasing every row once you got down to a certain number of stitches. I missed that note and had to back-track on a lot of stitches.

Advice: read the entire chapter before you start knitting. Then, highlight the instructions (or copy them on to a piece of paper).

This is one side of the hat.

This is the other. Part of the two-color pattern called for switching the pattern in the middle of a row. Thus, the bottom design is different on either side of the hat.